Auto-resume conversation when token/rate limit resets

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Feature Request

When a conversation is interrupted because the token or rate limit is exhausted, Claude Code currently just stops. The user has to manually resume once the limit resets.

Desired behavior: An option (e.g. --auto-resume or a setting in settings.json) that makes Claude Code automatically wait and continue the conversation once the rate limit window resets — especially useful for long-running, multi-step tasks that shouldn't require babysitting.

Use case: Complex autonomous tasks (multi-file refactors, data pipelines, research) that exceed the token budget in a single window. Today the user has to watch for the limit, wait, and manually --continue. This breaks the "set it and forget it" workflow that makes agentic coding powerful.

Possible approach:

• Detect rate-limit / token-exhaustion exit
• Wait for the reset window (API headers or a configurable backoff)
• Automatically invoke --continue to pick up where it left off
• Optional max-retries / max-wait to avoid infinite loops

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Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

1. [FEATURE] Continue when the session limit reached #13354
2. [FEATURE] Auto-continue after subscription rate limit resets #35744
3. auto resume #6254

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